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Literature

Two book covers: the book “Moses” by Uriel Birnbaum and exhibition catalog for the exhibition “Synagoga”

Digitized Books

from our library holdings

Online Project

Crumpled printed piece of paper formed into a ball, against a background with yellow-blue-green-purple gradient.

Inside Out – Etgar Keret

Exhibition
21 Oct 2022 to 19 Mar 2023

Portrait shot: a brunette man (Daniel Kehlmann) in half profile looking to the right.

A Peculiar Kinship

Etgar Keret and Daniel Kehlmann in conversation

Video Recording
29 Nov 2022

Sketchy black and white portrait of Paul Celan.

Jerusalem on the Pruth

Markus Winkler on Czernowitz and Jewish Literature

Essay
2022

Color graphic with leaves and birds.

Read the Signs

An evening to mark the 70th anniversary of the Night of Murdered Poets, in Yiddish and German

Video Recording
14 Aug 2022

red writing on white background, logo of the Summer University for Yiddish

Symposium on the 70th Anniversary of the Night of Murdered Poets

Summer Program for Yiddish Language and Literature, in Yiddish, English and German

Video Recording
14 Aug 2022

Portrait Rafael Seligmann

Rafi, Judenbub. Die Rückkehr der Seligmanns nach Deutschland

Book presentation and discussion with Rafael Seligmann and Hetty Berg, in German

Video Recording
24 Mar 2022

Plate adorned with a portrait drawing of Rahel Varnhagen, next to it a fork and the inscription Hörmahl: Feinkost für die Ohren.

“Hörmahl:” A Feast for the Ears

Dinner with Rahel Varnhagen, in German

Podcast
19 May 2021

Books

Iber der grenets / Crossing the Border: Yiddish Literature and Culture Today

Presentation of an extensive collection of Yiddish short stories, in German and Yiddish

Video Recording
20 Nov 2021

Woman with long brown hair and red lipstick leans her head against a wall and looks at the camera

30 Years of Post-Soviet Migration. A Life between Worlds

with Olga Grjasnowa, Britta Schneider, and Tsypylma Darieva, in German

Video Recording
12 Oct 2021

Four portrait photos.

Between the Lines

An evening with Israeli and German poets, in Hebrew and German

Video Recording
9 Sep 2017

Portrait of two women, the one on the right is an old black and white picture.

Incredibly Clever

Iris Berben reads Paula Buber, in German and English

Audio Recording
5 Aug 2017

Articles on Literature

Reviews, author interviews, and posts about literary events on Blogerim

Blog
2012–2017

A young woman.

Before the After Party

Reading with Molly Antopol and Katharina Marie Schubert, in German and English

Audio Recording
15 Jul 2017

Review of The Boxer by Reinhard Kleist

Blog post about the graphic novel that tells the story of Harry Haft’s survival

Blog
Jan 2015

Hebrew Worlds – On the Presence of Ancient Texts in Modern Ivrith

Inaugural lecture by Anne Birkenhauer

Audio Recording
27 Oct 2014

In front of the open window you can see a typewriter on a small table and a lamp with a slanted shade

Flight and Metamorphosis

Nelly Sachs, Writer, Berlin/Stockholm

Exhibition
25 Mar to 27 Jun 2010

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Franz Kafka, Writer

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Etgar Keret, Author and Screenwriter

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Literature for Children and Young Adults

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The Soncino Society

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Ilse Weber,
née Herlinger, Writer

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